Terraforming Venus - Flying Cities or a New Earth?

Why is Venus our best - maybe only - option for terraforming a new Earth? What makes it better than Mars? Isn't Venus basically hell?

Acid clouds, flying cities, bone-crushing air...In this episode we take a look at Earth's angry neighbor - Venus. We explore how people can live on Venus right now, even though the surface will melt lead And we discover how to change Venus into a new Earth - at a price.

Music:
@13ish minutes: A Hand In The Dark - Underbelly & Ty Maye
@20ish minutes: Alone - Emmit Fenn


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References:
https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/mel...
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosph....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-pape...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera#...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-t...
https://www.livescience.com/18083-lif....
http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogV...
https://phys.org/news/2016-12-weather...
https://www.mypetneedsthat.com/dog-br...
https://www.mypetneedsthat.com/kangal...
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/L...
https://theconversation.com/nasa-want...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_dr...

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0:00 Intro
1:19 Venus = Hell
4:17 Venus into Earth
9:37 The Long Venusian Day
12:17 Greenhouse Effects
16:20 How Would Venus Change?
19:58 The Cost (and music)
22:23 Final Thoughts